Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

You Might Be a Robot. This Is Not a Joke.

Laws are starting to confuse people and machines. (Who’s the legal “driver” of a self-driving car?)

March 14, 2019 at 11:30 AM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Truck? Driver?
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There’s a lot of loose talk about convergence between people and robots. As some see it, the rise of artificial intelligence will make humans obsolete — or at least force people to think more like machines.

Whether this prophecy should be viewed as auspicious or menacing is the subject of much speculation and controversy. But there’s no denying that in significant ways, it’s already happening.